Improvement in imitation embroidery



H. FQT. Hamlin.

Imitation Embroidery.

Patented Aug. H, 1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRI FRANQOIS'IIMOTHE MGRAUD, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFHIS RIGHT TO EDWARD VERNON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN INIITATION EMBROIDERY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1753.976, dated August11, 1874; application tiled March 5, 1874. i

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, HENRI FRANoIs TIM- OTHEMGRAUD, of Paris, in the Republic of France, have inventeda new anduseful Improvement in the Manufacture of Embroidery 5 and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same.

This invention relates to a new article of manufacture, to be employedprincipally in V stripi'isthen cut on one or both edges, according toany desired pattern, which may be scolloped, curved, dentated, serrated,or otherwise, either by means of a stamp or cutter, which rises andfalls at intervals as the strip passes beneath, or by means of a machinehaving a revolving knife or cutter, between which and a bed-roller thestrip is passed, as described in the specification accompanying anapplication for Letters Patent liled by me in the United States PatentOffice December 24, 1873; or the strip may have both edges plain,according to the purpose to which it is to be applied. The said gummedor stiifened strip is then passed through the machine described in thespecification accompanying the application for Letters Patent filed byme in the United States Patent Oliice December 24,

1873, whereby it is covered with threads, which are wound on the saidstrip by the rotating thread-carrying arms as it is drawn through themachine, as fully described in the said specification, or the strip maybe covered /It should be by the machine described in the specificationof another application for Letters Patent led by me in the United StatesPatent office on the 24th day of December, 1873, in which rotating armsWind threads around the strip at the same time that shuttles carryingother threads form with the first named a kind of woven edge to thestrip. In either case, the surfaces of the strip are so covered withthreads as to resemble satin-stitch when sewed onto anylfalric" "fobserved that the word thread, as employed in the course of the presentdescription, includes all kinds of threads, those generally employedbeing silk, cotton, wool of all colors, and also gold and silverthreads, which materials may be employed singly or in any desiredcombination.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows the gummed tape before itis cut; and Figs. 2 2a, 3, 4, 5 show strips of various patterns coveredwith thread for half their length by one of the machines referred to.Fig. 6 shows a similar strip on an enlarged scale covered with thread bythe last named machine. Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate examples of theapplications to show how leaves, buds, and flowers are made. p

Portions of the covered strips are bent into the form of leaves, owers,stems, and other designs, and fixed on any suitable stuff bywf-A sewing,a raised foundation of Wood or other material being placed beneath inthe case of' flowers, as usual in embroidering, to bring ,i x

Having described my invention, What I required designs Aand applied tothe fabric, Y

claim isv l' substantially as Aherein described andshown. y The methodof producing ioral designs up- The above specication of my invention onall kinds of textile fabrics in yimitation of signed by me this 4th dayof February, 187 4." embroidery by means of strips of tape or otherHENRI FRANQOIS TIMOTHE MGRAUD. fabric having their edges straight or cutinto Witnesses: scallops or indentations, covered with threads CH. F.THLRION,

Wound evenly thereon, and formed into the PICOT.

